A southern Louisiana shooting has left two sheriff's deputies wounded and another police officer dead, officials said. Stephen Hammons, spokesman for Louisiana State Police Troop I, said Saturday that all three officers were responding to a house fire on Flattown Road in Charenton when an armed individual began firing at them.

Two deputies from the St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office are in critical condition, Hammons said. One has been airlifted to a hospital in New Orleans and the other has been taken to a hospital in Lafayette.

An officer from the Chitimacha Reservation was killed at the scene, he said.

Hammons said the suspect has been taken into custody.

A previous NOLA.com story said only one officer had been wounded in the shooting.